Pablo Neruda

Poet Chilean 1904 – 1973

Chilean poet and Nobel Prize winner for Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair.

377 quotes

"Sadness is almost my native language; I learned it before learning joy."
Wisdom
"A man who hasn't read Homer is like a man who hasn't seen the ocean."
Literature
"Do not go gentle where there is injustice; rage, rage against the dying of what is right."
Justice
"I am my own journey; I am both the road and the traveler upon it."
Life
"The sea calls to those who have already drowned in its depths."
Adventure
"Tengo ganas de llorar porque he amigo el arcoiris, I have the desire to cry because I understand the rainbow."
"If you forget me, I shall not be sad; I will become the wind and seek you out."
Love
"In the middle of the journey of our lives, we must choose between the road taken and the road not yet traveled."
"The strongest word is the word unspoken, held in the heart like a secret flame."
Truth
"I learned that growth requires the willingness to be broken and remade."
Change
"Tonight the wind will carry my thoughts to where you sleep."
Love
"The night is also a sun, just turned inside out."
Philosophy
"What the heart knows, the mind will eventually understand."
Wisdom
"I build walls not to keep people out, but to see who loves me enough to climb them."
Relationships
"The simplest things in life are the most powerful: bread, water, and a kind word."
Kindness
"Distance is only the shadow of love, longer under the sun."
Love
"I would like to be useful; that is the measure of success I understand."
Success
"The flower does not compete with other flowers; it simply blooms."
Nature
"In silence, I have found the loudest truths."
Solitude
"Time carries us forward even when we wish to remain still."
Time
"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."
Strength
"I seek not to be understood but to understand; that is the greater victory."
Wisdom
"Every book is a door, and every reader is a key that unlocks new worlds."
Literature
"The sea does not ask permission to be beautiful; it simply is."
Beauty
"In the architecture of dreams, even the impossible becomes possible."
Dreams
"I have learned that music is the language of those for whom words are not enough."
Music
"The stars are not distant when you hold someone's hand in the dark."
Love
"Courage is not the absence of fear; it is moving forward when fear whispers loudest."
Courage
"I am more myself in the presence of a true friend than any other place on earth."
Friendship
"The night sky teaches us that darkness can also shine."
Philosophy